Starling flocks fly like a single entity (w/ Video)
Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 06:00
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- An animal group such as a school of fish or a flock of starlings can seem like a single entity governed by a collective mind. A new mathematical analysis of flight dynamics in flocks of starlings suggest this is because the birds are effectively a single network, with every bird`s movements affected by every other bird`s movements, as if they were all connected together.